About Hayley
Hayley Mauro is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in California who focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety. She aims to make sessions straightforward and approachable for anyone feeling overwhelmed or uncertain about therapy. Hayley uses clear, practical tools to help clients notice unhelpful thoughts and change patterns that cause distress.
Her style is down-to-earth and calm, and she emphasizes building coping skills that can be used between sessions.
Background and approach
She often blends skill-based approaches with a focus on what matters most to the client. Over seven years she has worked in settings that involved children, youth, and family concerns, gaining experience with trauma, grief, and motivation issues. That background informs how she helps people who are dealing with loss, self-esteem struggles, or the aftermath of difficult experiences.
Her work also includes supporting people with ADHD, panic, and somatic symptoms. Sessions are meant to be a space to speak honestly about feelings without judgment. Hayley helps clients set small, achievable goals and practices strategies together during sessions.
She encourages ongoing skill practice and tracks progress so people can see change over time. People come to Hayley for help with anxiety, depression, relationship stress, parenting strain, and life transitions. She also offers approaches useful for compassion fatigue, sexuality and women's issues, and end-of-life concerns.
Her aim is to help clients regain a sense of control and move toward clearer daily functioning.
Evidence-based approaches and online care
Hayley uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to help people identify and change thought patterns that feed anxiety and depression. CBT focuses on practical exercises and small behavior changes that reduce distress and improve daily functioning.She also draws on Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) skills to teach emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness. Those DBT techniques are often helpful for intense emotions, panic, and self-harm urges because they offer clear steps to manage overwhelming moments.
Choosing the right approach is a team effort. Hayley will talk with each person about their goals, try methods that fit those goals, and adjust the plan based on what works best. She collaborates on goals and reviews progress so the work stays focused and relevant.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation; phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited; brief check-ins work well over chat or messaging. These options let people fit therapy into work breaks, caregiving schedules, or times when travel is difficult, while keeping the same therapeutic approaches available remotely.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Cancer
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- LGBT
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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